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Patented May 17, 1892.

(No Model.)

B. STERNER & W. B. AMSPCHER,

ELEVATED KETTLE CARRIER.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICEQ EMANUEL STERNER AND WESLEY BLAMsPoHER, or GLENVILLE,PENN- SYLVANIA. I

ELEVATED KETTLE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,167, dated May 1Z,1892.

Application filed January 21, 1892- Serial No. 418,744. (No modal.)

The invention relates to improvements in.

elevated kettle-carriers for fireplaces.

The object of the present invention is to provide for fireplaces anelevated carrier by which a kettle, pot, or similar vessel may bereadily placed over a fire and removed therefrom without liabilityofburning the operator and by which the heaviest vessel may be movedwith comparative ease.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fireplace having anelevated carrier constructed in accordance with this invention, thehanger being arranged at the front or outer end of the track-bar. Fig. 2is a vertical sectional View.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figuresof the drawings.

1 designates a horizontal track-bar extending from the front to the backof a fireplace and having its rear end secured in the rear wall 3 of thefireplace. 'The front end A of the track-bar is curved upward and issecured above the fireplace by a bolt, screw, or the like, which passesthrough a perforation of the end 4 of the track-bar, and the front oftrack extends outward beyond the fireplace to enable a kettle 5, whichis carried by a hanger 6, to be brought'out clear of the fireplace. Thehanger 6 depends fromthe track and is provided with a pulley 7, which isgrooved and is arranged on the track-bar 1,

which is preferably round. The said hanger is provided with a dependingbar or shank 8, which has a series of hooks 9, adapted for the receptionof the bail 10 of the kettle 5, whereby the kettle may be arranged atthe desired height to obtain the greatest benefit of the fire.

The elevated carrier forkettl'es is particularly advantageous inwash-houses, and in all other places having open fireplaces. It enablesa woman or girl to handle readily without labor large preserving-kettlesand the like,

and is especially desirable in the country,.

where help is not always convenient, as it is often necessary to removea boiling vessel quickly from the fire.

What I claim is 1. An elevated carrier for fireplaces, comprising atrack-bar having its rear end secured in the rear wall of a fireplaceand having its front end extended out beyond the fireplace and bentupward to be secured above the fireplace, and a hanger depending fromthe track-bar and adapted to carry a kettle and provided with a pulleyarranged on the trackbar, substantially as described.

2. An elevated carrier for fireplaces, comprising a horizontal track-bardesigned to have its inner end secured toa rear wall of a fire-' placeand having its front or outer end extending and bent upward to besecured above the fireplace, a hanger depending from the track-bar andprovided with a bar having a series of hooks adapted for the receptionof the bail of a vessel, and a'pulley journaled in the hanger andmounted on the track-bar, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL STERNER. WESLEY B. AMSPCHER.

WVitnesses:

F. H. STERNER, JOHN J. BURNS.

